Books

 

Analytics and Big Data

Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance
(ISBN 978-1118175569) Wiley (2013)
 
Discover the breakthrough tool your company can use to make winning decisions.
 
Co-authored with Lawrence Maisel, this forward-thinking book addresses the emergence of predictive business analytics, how it can help redefine the way your organization operates, and many of the misconceptions that impede the adoption of this new management capability. Filled with case examples, Predictive Business Analytics defines ways in which specific industries have applied these techniques and tools and how predictive business analytics can complement other financial applications such as budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting.


Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management, 2nd Edition
(ISBN 978-1-119-79364-9) Wiley (2021)

A “how-to” guide for supply chain professionals who need accurate cost information for end-to-end processes .

 

Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance
(ISBN 978-1-93735-081-9) AICPA (2012)
 
This book was commissioned by the new joint venture of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). It addresses financial planning and analysis (FP&A).

 

Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
(ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1) Wiley, (2009)
 
Ranked as the #1 selling book on enterprise performance management (EPM). Its subtitle reflects the books wide breadth. 

 

Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap
(ISBN 0-471-57690-5) Wiley (2004)

This 2004 EPM book preceded its 2009 successor book. This book provides detail on how design, build, and implement EPM methodologies including strategy maps, the balanced scorecard, dashboards, customer profitability measurement and analysis, risk management, driver-based budgeting, and rolling financial forecasts – all with embedded analytics.


Managerial Accounting; Budgeting; Activity Based Costing (ABC)

Value-Based Management in Government
(ISBN 978-1-119-66016-3) Wiley (2020)

Value-Based Management in Government introduces a new, integrating framework for management practices that optimizes the balancing of results sought; resources supplied and allocated; and risks accepted. The book offers guidance on how strategic planning, performance management, cost/resource management, and risk management must all be integrated as part of a portfolio management framework across the organization. The book also discusses the role of information technology (IT) in providing data for insights and decision-making, and the importance of organizational change management to implement the needed organizational and behavioral changes.

 

Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive's Guide
(ISBN 0-471-44328-X) Wiley (2001)

With 374 pages, this book is recognized by many as the premier and most comprehensive book on activity-based cost management (ABC/M).

 

Activity-Based Cost Management: Making It Work
(ISBN 0-7863-0740-4) McGraw-Hill (1996)

Published in 1996, this ABC/M book was proclaimed in the Harvard Business Review to “read the ABC book first.”

 

An ABC Manager's Primer
(ISBN 0-86641-220-4) McGraw Hill (2002)

With over 40,000 copies sold this 70 page book was arguably the first ABC book that explained ABC in a simple language that anyone can understand – not just accountants. It sponsored by the professional organizations IMA and CAM-I.


Quality Management

Principles of Quality Costs: Principles, Implementation, and Use, 3rd edition
(ISBN 0-87389-443-X); (contributor); American Society of Quality (1999)

Quality activities can be categorized as (1) done first time correct; (2) conformance [prevention, appraisal]; and non-conformance [internal failure, external failure]. This book explains how to measure the “Costs of Quality (COQ)” reflecting these categories.


Information Technology (CIO)

CIO Best Practices
(ISBN 978-0-470-63540-7); (contributor); Wiley (2010)

This authoritative book assembles an unprecedented collection of pioneering and successful senior IT executives whose insights shed new light on the strategic opportunities for IT leaders and managers.


Textbooks

Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, 6e
McGraw-Hill (2012) with co-authors

This textbook ranks #2 of dozens of cost accounting books and is gaining in market share with the accepted #1 Charles Horngren textbook. The gains are because this text applies a strategic emphasis on managerial accounting and provides students with understanding decision making in real-world organizations.